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Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter LXXI
Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE
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O Divine Hawk, who comest forth in Heaven, Lord of Mehurit
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Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth
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May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the Lord of the One Face
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I am the Hawk in the Tabernacle and I pierce through [that which is upon] the Vail
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Here is Horus, the Son of Isis: Horus the Son of Isis
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Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth
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May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face
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I am the Hawk in the Southern Heaven, and Thoth in the Northern Heaven, who appease the Flame when raging and who convey Law to the god who loveth it
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Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth
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May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face
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I am Unbu of En-areref, the Flower of the Abode of Occultation
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Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth
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May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face
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O thou who art upon thy two legs [ or who art terrible upon thy two legs], at thine own hour, owner of the Two Twin Souls, and who livest in Two Twin Souls
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Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth
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May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face
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O thou who circlest round, within thine Egg, Lord of Mehurit
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Make thou me sound, even as thou hast made thyself sound, who revealest thyself, who disrobest thyself, and presentest thyself to the Earth
19.
May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face
20.
Sebak standeth erect, surrounded by his high places, and Neith standeth erect in the midst of her alluvial grounds, in order to reveal themselves, to disrobe themselves and to present themselves to the Earth
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May his will towards me be done by the Lord of the One Face
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Oh ye Seven Divine Masters, who are the arms of the Balance on the Night wherein the Eye is fixed; ye who strike off the heads and cleave the necks, who seize the hearts and drag forth the whole hearts, and accomplish the slaughter in the Tank of Flame: ye whom I know and whose names I know, know you me as I know your names
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I advance to you, advance ye to me: live in me and let me live in you. Convey to me the Symbol of Life which is in your hands, and the Sceptre which ye grasp
24.
Award to me the life of yearly speech through countless years of life in addition to my years of life; countless months in addition to the months of my life; countless days in addition to the days of my life; and countless nights in addition to the nights of my life, that I may come forth and beam upon my own images, with breath for my nostrils, and eyes which see, amid those who are at the Horizon, on that day when brute Force is brought to a reckoning
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If this Chapter is known there is well-being on earth with Rā and a fair abode with Osiris, and the person is glorified in the Netherworld. There are granted to him the sacred cakes and the coming forth into the presence, [83] in the course of each day, undeviatingly, for times infinite